The best Bible verses for darkness (KJV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for darkness (KJV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness."Ecclesiastes 6:4
"For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness."Ecclesiastes 6:4
"But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity."Ecclesiastes 11:8
"For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:"Ephesians 5:8
"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them."Ephesians 5:11
"For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,"Hebrews 12:18
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"Isaiah 5:20
"And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof."Isaiah 5:30
"And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness."Isaiah 8:22
"The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."Isaiah 9:2
"Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?"Isaiah 29:15
"And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness."Isaiah 29:18
"To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house."Isaiah 42:7
"And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel."Isaiah 45:3
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things."Isaiah 45:7
"I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right."Isaiah 45:19
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for darkness (KJV) are Ecclesiastes 6:4, Ecclesiastes 11:8, Ephesians 5:8. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to darkness (KJV) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for darkness (KJV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.